As Kadin trudged through barren countryside looking for an abandoned tower/castle/mansion/library/school/mausoleum and the mad fire demon who supposedly lived there, he had more time with his thoughts than he was comfortable with. Blood drained from his knuckles as he tightened his grip on his pack, forcing his mind back away from fucking stupid, traitorous
He was running away again.
This time, he didn't have the excuse of someone being out to kill him. Nor did he have prior arrangements elsewhere he'd set up and couldn't break. He also couldn't say that he was looking for a job and had to leave because there weren't any prospects where he'd been. He was just... running away for reasons he didn't want to examine. He already knew he was a coward for it. No need to dwell further.
The dry grasses he'd been staring at started to smoke and, when his glare intensified, burst into flames. Fuck. He let out a string of curses as he stomped out the small blaze, pointed adverting his gaze from any plant life once the danger was gone, hiking his bag higher on his shoulders, and marching forward with renewed purpose. He was running away because the alternative was to stay and staying meant that he'd have even less control on this... thing that was happening to him. His best bet was to wander until he found someone who had a faint hope of even explaining to him what the fuck was happening to him. Hence, looking for abandoned buildings that housed fire demons. Rumors always had a bit of truth to them, after all, and as long as the bit about a guy with fire magic was true and not the bit about the actual demon, he figured it was as good a shot as any.
And if he died, well, he'd never have to face what he was running away from. Win-win.
Kadin kept walking until the crumbling building he'd spotted a while back began to resemble an old building- maybe a library?, the closer he got to it. He hadn't actually expected to find anything out here, to be honest, but at least this meant the information he'd gotten wasn't utter bullcrap. Once he was a good couple yards out from the building, he stopped and frowned up at it, wondering what the hell he was supposed to do now that he'd found it. Was there... a working door... to knock on somewhere? He pushed the thought away with a snort. Guess he'd find out soon enough.